Album Notes

"Opium-den float rock." ~ The New York Post

"Bruno delivers lullaby-esque ventures into misty graveyards." ~ www.freddysbackroom.com

"raw, emotional, and deeply cathartic acoustic songs, seemingly wrenched from the deepest, darkest corners a guitar can go whilst being plucked and strummed this gently. Mike's voice truly transcends the barrier between 'barely there' and absolutely destructive." ~ He of the House

"I might have met Mike Bruno in a dream. Maybe as a man playing guitar atop a dead cliff over some distant sea. Hooded and cloaked perhaps and fiddling with some screeching musical instruments at a far off market while the passerbys nodded along in both wonder and apathy. This was what ran riot in my head every time I listened to songs like “Fallen Kings” and “Black Horses.” He closed his eyes and scrunched up his face at each take. At instances, I felt a bit like an outsider watching him lament a story in his sleep. The combination of his tale-weaving lyrics, the fast and dark tones of his guitar, and the howling glasses of his musician partner very much mesmerized me enough to imagine I was hearing some legend, some fantasy, some secret life of the characters in his songs. Certainly, during the session, he made the shadows in the attic of the Bishop House alive with his dark melodies. So much that in the end, when all was done and he smiled and laughed a normal stranger’s smile and laugh, I felt as if I had just woken up." ~ Pollifax